Newcastle & Hunter Valley Pharmacists Association Inc. | Medical company
Newcastle & Hunter Valley Pharmacists Association Inc.
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25.01.2022 Don’t miss out Expressions of Interest close date / Last date for submitting EOI responses is Midnight AEDT, 19 February 2021
25.01.2022 Happy International Women's Day 2020! An equal world is an enabled world #EachforEqual. Let's all be #EachforEqual. Each one of us can help create a gender equal world.... #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #IWD2020 #EachForEqual International Women's Day See more
25.01.2022 This shows the importance of social distancing to keep you and your loved ones safe. #socialdistancing #beresponsible #covid19
25.01.2022 Happy Christmas to you and yours! We hope you all have a peaceful and healthy Christmas, and a prosperous Happy New Year! Hopefully somewhere in the next few weeks you'll manage to grab a break of some sort!
24.01.2022 Are you a locum, or a pharmacist needing a locum?
22.01.2022 Pharmacists in the Newcastle and Central Coast areas. Don’t miss A/Prof Suzanne Nielsen (Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre) and Dr Kylie Bailey ...(Hunter Primary Care) in this interactive workshop on medicines safety, including the pharmacists responsibilities when medicines impair function and fitness to drive. Workshop $30 for all pharmacists. Sunday 25th August, 9am-3pm at the Apollo International Charlestown. Call (02) 9431 1100 to register over the phone and secure your place. Up to 14 CPD credits (Group 2) See more
21.01.2022 A temporary expansion of the PBS Continued Dispensing covering nearly all PBS medicines will mean Australians affected by the bushfire crisis will be able to ac...cess their vital medicines at regular PBS prices without a prescription following, a move strongly welcomed by PSA. Under the temporary change, from Monday 13 January 2020 pharmacists will be able to offer standard quantities of ongoing PBS medicines for the co-payment consumers are used to paying being $6.60 for concession card holders, and up to a maximum of $41.00 for general patients where medicines are supplied without a prescription in an emergency situation. https://www.health.gov.au//affordable-access-to-medicines-
21.01.2022 Happy World Pharmacists Day! #WorldPharmacistsDay #safeandeffectivemedicines #AskYourPharmacist #WPD2019
21.01.2022 The NHVPA committee would like to invite you to our Annual NHVPA Dinner! Find out about the progress of the 7CPA negotiations, and enjoy great food and great company in a fantastic venue. Location: The Newcastle Club, 40 Newcomen Street, Newcastle NSW 2300 Date(s): Monday 28 October 2019 ... Time: 6.30pm for 7pm start Cost: $80 Early bird: $70 (book before 14 Oct) Students: $45 Tickets: via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nhvpa-dinner-tickets-751122
20.01.2022 Congratulations Chelsea!
20.01.2022 With so many people affected by these fires, there are always those who step up and stand out. We've so much respect for those people
19.01.2022 Congratulations to David! Clearly a well respected member of the community! Good luck to Glenn for the future!
19.01.2022 I'm sure everyone in the local pharmacy community will join us at the NHVPA in wishing Bob Lundy all the best in his retirement! Congratulations to him on his many years of service to the people of Newcastle.
18.01.2022 I am a hospital pharmacist at John Hunter Hospital and I review medications of patients that are admitted to hospital to ensure we don’t miss anything. As you a...ll are aware COVID-19 is in the forefront of our mind every hour and every day. During this time, I have asked our Pharmacy Associations (PSA, SHPA, Guild) and NPS Medicinewise to include in the conversations of the Government and to include in the national health message to ensure patients have an updated medication list if in the event they are admitted to hospital. Locally and nationally, I hope we can encourage our patients, as they pick up their supplies of medications or come in concerned in regards to COVID-19, to remind them to write an up to date medication list. It is important we communicate to them not to be alarmed or scared of going to hospital but to be prepared. I understand and aware you all are under immense pressure with the ongoing stock constraints and mass hording, scared patients and absurd behaviours of particular individuals. Why is it important to write a list? Our doctors, nurses and fellow pharmacists in hospitals may be inundated with patients very soon. We do not want to keep patients in hospital longer than we need to, and it is important we get the right medication and the right dose for patients, to reduce adverse events from missed or incorrect medications. If you have the time to spend with one or two patients to help make a list or give them a printed template with their prescription, particularly those at risk with a lot of medication, it would help us all, not only in the hospital setting but in the community as a whole by reducing unnecessary burden on the health care system. There are many apps patients can download, NPS Medicinewise, MedAdvisor, MyPharmacy to list a few. Also MedsChecks is invaluable. There are also hardcopy medication lists you can order or print for patients at: https://www.nps.org.au/consumers/keeping-a-medicines-list We value everything you all do! Keep it up!
18.01.2022 Looking at the article in the Newcastle Herald today, I think it is also timely to extend our gratitude to all in the Community Pharmacy sector. From the start they kept their doors open, extended their home deliveries, continued to provide flu and other vaccinations, dealt with the myriad of extra admin with faxes and emailed prescriptions coming from the doctors providing telehealth services, AND still provided all the usual community pharmacy services to their local communities. Bravo, and thank you! Newcastle Herald
18.01.2022 Have you renewed your registration yet? Well get it done!!!!
17.01.2022 At this time, it may be a good idea to get ourselves an up-to-date Local Locum List. If you are on this list, please check your details are correct. If not, please message us. If you are a locum and you are not on this list - Why not?! Please add yourself following the directions below. Thank you all for your extremely hard work at this time.
16.01.2022 Nice to see someone supporting all us hard working pharmacists. Thank you!
16.01.2022 Congratulations Brianne! Great pharmacy staff are the back bone of our pharmacies, and great support to our pharmacists!
16.01.2022 Health workers, take care of yourself during COVID-19. Try and use helpful coping strategies: ensuring sufficient rest & respite during work or between sh...ifts eat sufficient & healthy food engage in physical activity stay in contact with family & friends See more
14.01.2022 You guys are probably all over this, but if you’re not, then this page and HNE Health are good pages to be following. Stay safe!
14.01.2022 For six decades he was known as Newcastle's medicine man treating generations of families and seafarers in port. Now retired, Bob Lundy is teaching the current generation about lotions and potions of eras gone.
13.01.2022 With the ongoing Covid situation, local pharmacies may need locums, maybe at short notice. If you haven't already, maybe think if you are able to help out any local pharmacies/pharmacists with a day or part-day cover. Some of the smaller pharmacies have no regular days off or extra pharmacists. (This document always sits in under the Notes tab of our Facebook page)
12.01.2022 Congratulations to our local Fellow - Luke Kelly! https://www.psa.org.au/three-new-psa-fellows-recognised-fo/
09.01.2022 Happy World Pharmacists Day! The theme this year is Transforming Global Health. #WPD #WPD2020 #WorldPharmacistsDay
09.01.2022 It’s World Pharmacy Week, and the 10th World Pharmacist’s Day is on Friday 25 September! The theme of #WPD2020 is Transforming Global Health
09.01.2022 Happy Australia Day I hope you are all getting a break of some sort, enjoy your rest!
08.01.2022 Today is R U OK?Day, a reminder to start a conversation that could change a life today, tomorrow and any day it's needed. Learn what to say after R U OK? so you can keep the conversation going when someone says they're not OK. Visit www.ruok.org.au/how-to-ask #RUOKDay #theresmoretosay #RUOK
08.01.2022 Some timely information
07.01.2022 Community pharmacists wanted! Effect of cost on adherence in asthma: a pharmacy based study You are invited to take part in a research study which aims to devel...op and pilot resources to improve the quality of prescribing of asthma medicines through a cross disciplinary intervention in community pharmacy. Previous research shows that cost is an important factor in people’s decisions about asthma medicines. It is also known that GPs are largely unaware that cost is an issue for their patients and that combination asthma preventer medicines are more costly for patients than single ingredient preventers. Community pharmacists are ideally placed to implement guideline-based treatment strategies to reduce asthma medicine costs for patients. The study involves a single focus group of around 2 hours duration or an interview of around 45 minutes. You can take part in this study if you are a pharmacist registered to practise in NSW. If you would like more details or to take part, please contact: Dr Sharon Davis, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney Email: [email protected] Telephone: 02 91140371
07.01.2022 Dear fellow Pharmacists. NSW Health have updated their advice to AMBER Alert. This means that as a frontline health worker, you should wear a mask if you will be within 1.5m of any patient. (Originally posted on NHVPA Pharmacy Share group page)
07.01.2022 If you are a Pharmacy Guild member you would have received an election paper for the Branch Committee. Your vote counts Please get your papers back as soon as you can, bearing in mind that the post is quite slow at the moment!
05.01.2022 We are a local glazing company and we have always supplied Perspex and acrylic products to our customers but we have had to evolve during this crisis and we h...ave made prefabricated, easy to install SNEEZEGUARDS for counter tops. CALLING ALL PHARMACIES, MEDICAL PRACTICES, DOCTORS SURGERIES, RECEPTION AREAS Prices start at $299 Incl GST for the prefab sizes of 800mm high x 600mm wide with a small slot at the bottom to pass items through) but we can also do custom made which will be quoted once measured. Easy install with suction cups so it can be as temporary or as permanent as you like. We are installing them in a few local pharmacies and offices as we speak to protect much needed staff and thought we should reach out. Please pass this information onto pharmacies/doctors surgeries/reception areas within your association, if they wish to have added safety from this virus and into the future, for their staff. We are not sure what the future holds and if we are forced into lockdown but for the mean time we plan on installing these as quickly as possible so everyone is protected moving forward Contact us on direct on 49904220 or 0497845819
05.01.2022 PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT (Updated at 11am, 3 August) Hunter New England Local Health District is urging anyone who visited the following venues to strictly isolate a...t home for 14 days from the date below and be on the lookout for COVID-19 symptoms. Get tested regardless of symptoms, but you must remain in isolation for the full 14 days even if your initial test is negative. If you do develop COVID-19 symptoms, you should be retested. - Hotel Jesmond on 29 July between 7pm and 9pm - Wallsend Diggers on 29 AND 30 July between 9pm and 11pm - Lambton Park Hotel on 30 July between 8pm until 9pm. This follows confirmation of a confirmed Sydney case who visited Newcastle on 29 and 30 July while infectious. Hunter New England Health is in contact with the management of the three venues to identify patrons who attended at these times. The venues will be deep cleaned overnight with extra attention to touch points. Hunter New England Health is still working to contact those who attended the venues at these times and they should be on the lookout for symptoms. If you were at these locations during these times, you may be at risk of infection and you must strictly isolate at home for 14 days from those dates and be tested for COVID-19. This action is vital to limit the spread of the virus. We urge everyone to follow directions they receive about home isolation and quarantine, and maintain COVID-safe practices of physical distancing, coughing or sneezing into their elbow, and regularly washing their hands. Those wishing to be tested can organise a swab via their GP or by attending their nearest COVID-19 clinic. The drive through clinic at the University of Newcastle continues to operate 8am to 4pm, Monday to Sunday for those who need testing. Call 4964 7497 to arrange an appointment, prior to attending. Testing is also available through 4Cyte Pathology’s COVID-19 clinic at Central Church Warners Bay (290 Hillsborough Rd). The clinic operates between 8am and 4pm, Monday to Friday and 8am to 11am Saturdays, and no booking is required. More information can be found on their website at www.medtechservices.net.au
04.01.2022 This is a well written article. It may be worth sharing on your Pharmacy page, and letting patients know to come in and chat if they have any concerns!
04.01.2022 Don't miss out on the local pharmacy event of the Year! Come on guys!! Support your local pharmacy organisation, network with local colleagues and chat with PSA and Guild folk. Get a table together and have some fun! **BOOK NOW**
03.01.2022 Each evening the Australian Government Department of Health updates their Coronavirus information into an easy to digest Infograph. You can get the current one here - https://www.health.gov.au//coronavirus-covid-19-at-a-glance
02.01.2022 Happy Mother's Day to all Mums, Moms, Mammies and Mothers that are celebrating Mother's Day (Aus, NZ, Canada, USA and others) today! (Especially the brand new Moms!!) #MothersDay #ThankYou #Love
02.01.2022 With all the volume of information and advice going around at the moment, this looks like a straightforward, common sense way of approaching things! More info and PDFs at https://www.fip.org/coronavirus
02.01.2022 Updated 8-1-2020 Advice for pharmacists supplying medicines to patients in areas affected by NSW Bushfires
01.01.2022 Pharmacists in NSW can now vaccinate children over 10 years old!
